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Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
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Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
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But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
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A man can smile and smile and be a villain.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake it is a pond.
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
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I like being myself. Myself and nasty.
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We live together, we act on, and react to one another but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
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If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure as a monster he was superb.
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Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
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By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.
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Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
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An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
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Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.
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Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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